Children In Need 2015

The Live Show

Children in Need 2015 was broadcast live from YSTV

studios beginning around 7:15pm on November 14, 2015

and lasting approximately 2 hours. The live show

included presenter challenges, a quiz show, live

music, VTs and more. Kenric Yuen and [[Iona

McEwan]] had produced and directed the show. it's

Presented by . The live show had raise £152.3 for BBC

children in Need

Theme

This year Children in Need have the theme of "Be a

Hero", where the production have based it's script

and presenter challenge around it. The main narrative

is the presenter trying to find out who of them is

the better "Hero Apprentice" for Pudsey. Also Kenric Yuen had "invited" Pudsey from Leeds

to film varies VT for YSTV. However due to the

closeness of BBC Children in Need and YSTV show,

Pudsey is incapable to appear in Live show unless

changing the show date.

Pudsey

During the research about the "Be a Hero" theme,

Kenric Yuen realize the possibility and just take

a chance of it. Although having proper reply from

BBC, inviting Pudsey to the Live show proven

unrealistic this year due to YSTV Children in Need

always a Day later of BBC's, where they will need all

Pudsey available. Instead Pudsey is invited to film

varies VT to establish the theme and narrative of the

show.
The show start with

Presenter Challenges

Lego Challenge (VT)

The Lego Challenge is hosted by Alex Light, where there is two 10 minutes round to build something out of Lego. The theme is minibus and dream house. The result is judged by build quality, creativity and Praticailty

Ready Steady Cook(VT)

Ready Steady Cook is a normal Cook challege with unusal food. Since both the rules, the food and the location is not investigate before, it had proven to be extremely chaotic! It's judged by Iona McEwan.

Music Acts

Live

There were two live musical acts, Joe Christie sang 2

song while playing piano, the second act is by Simon

Baron who performed guitar and singing. A separate

stage area with a black curtain and the end of the

lighting rig had set up for easy transition and

different lighting set up.

VT

York Revelation Rock-Gospel Choir have let's us film

their rehearsal and had written a song specifically

for Pudsey. They are do a few other song including

Lion King. The VT last over 15 minutes so it could

fill the 2 hour time and Kenric Yuen not sure

which too pick (as the spontaneous Lion King with

Pudsey is great). At the end it work out quite well

and gave quite a bit of a break for the crews.

Mysterious Disappearance of Heroes

Spiting into 3 parts, Mysterious Disappearance of

Heroes is written by Iona McEwan, based on "Be a

Hero" theme. This year Sabbitcal officer is invited

to be part of the drama. Following the rivalry

establish in the intro, it set a situation where

varies role-model (Heroes) disspear because of

Goose-Man(By Iona McEwan) using the evil Henry

the vacuum cleaner to hide them. When the presenter

try to raise money for Children in Need as heroes

they incidentally destroy Goose-Man plan to conquer

the world.
Sadly due to lack of time and availability of

presenter (mostly film in a week along with all other

Challenge VT), it's hastily filmed and edited. Many

intended effect and shot is not filmed. It's advice

to move to production of CiN much more earlier to

make sure quality of the show and reduce stress of

the arrangment.

Other Acts

Chris Wall Magic Show
Since inviting and

Fundraising

The Fundraising for Children in Need 2015 mainly is

with the just giving website

(https://www.justgiving.com/Childreninneed2015/) ,

which have £110 of donation. The other source of

donation come from Pudsey Parade, which collect

£42.3. The total raised this year therefore is £152.3

The Good

This section is comprised of all the things that went

really well, and that might be good for future

producers to replicate.

• Pudsey

• Keep update the guest in terms of time and keep

reminding them about the show and everyone show up!

• Have a google table to pin down the availability of

Presenter to ensure all VT finish in a week

• Active communication between two producer and work

distribution, the CiN email usage allow both producer

up to date and remind each other consistently.

• The rivalry setting allow the presenter to ab-lib to

a degree without feeling awkward as they can just

start argue to stale a bit time, even when the

presenter is doing first time TV live it feel quite

natural.

• There is a few relatively long VT where crew can go

to rest room, take a break and re-hydrate easily.

• There is slightly more decoration this year!

The Bad

This section is composed of a list of things that

didn't go so well, and that future producers of CiN

might want to think about when they are planning

their broadcast.

• Production Cycle start really late due to lack of

participation (which is common in 2015-2016), where

Presenter is pin down only 3 week before the show.

• Due to the short turn around, the Drama is hastily

plan and shot, planning much earlier is advice

• This year there isn't a charity interview due to the

lateness of production cycle and most charity in York

had been visited. Again do it earlier!

• VT filmed could use more planning with the host or

the format itself, there is a lot confusion in the

cooking VT which rules have to set on the fly.

• Scout location before to plan shot. Again Cooking VT

and LegoVT could use furniture rearrangement and fix

camera again that allow presenter to face the correct

direction and present the challenge focus properly

• The Studio section with guest can also use some

discussion and planning before hand with the studio

crew and technical team before. As DanceSoc suddenly

ask for music playout and dance challenge as a

surprise.

• Although mention in Good point, the VT is still too

long and should be break down into interval to spread

out the show more evenly and less problem is Studio

section transition.

Triva

• The decoration drop in the middle of the show, where

the presenter awkardly stick them back

• During the show Adam Tye had talk back to the

Director multiple time. When notified on earpieces he

reply on live "I didn't.." and the Control laugh so

hard that it captured on the presenter mics. [[Kate

Whitake]] also comment about that.

Credits

• Producers: Kenric Yuen, Iona McEwan
• Director: Iona McEwan
• Presenters: Adam Tye and Kate Whitaker
• Vision Mixer: Rachel Burns
• VT Op: Anthony Williams
• Sound Engineer: Sam Willcocks
• Camera Ops: Joella Panthradil, Grace Downer,

Freya Phillips

• Graphics Op: Kenric Yuen
• Autocue Op: Grace Winpenny
• Floor Manager: Daniel Lock
• Special Thanks to: DanceSoc, LegoSoc, York

Revelation Rock-Gospel Choir, Pudsey, Chris Wall,

Simon Baron, Joe Christie, Alex Light, Grace Clarke,

Thomas Ron, Scott Dawson and Ben Leatham

• Pudsey: Spiritual Supported by (cause Pudsey is

real) Kenric Yuen, Iona McEwan

• Technical & Computing: Anthony Williams, [[Sam

Willcox]], Peter Eskdale, Sam Nicholson and

Robert Walker

• Runner: Anxin Zhang
• Riggers: Peter Eskdale,Anxin Zhang, [[Sam

Willcocks]], Robert Walker, Grace Winpenny,

Rachel Burns and who else???Unverified or incomplete information

• VT Camera: Anthony Williams
• Graphics & Animation: Kenric Yuen
• Editors: Iona McEwan and Kenric Yuen
• Social Media: Sophie Monk